Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-10-28
WIT AND WISDOM.

-"Nobby pea soup is advertised by
a Reading (Pa.) landlord.
1t is better to be noblv remembe red
than nobly born.-Ruskin.
The official whose business it is to
look into the affairs of the nation is
very properly called ply minister
The $500 fan of the Queen of Italy
lpalm-leaf article ''two for five cents"
Every smart nah takes his turn at
actin de fool Dc shorest-footed boss
in de worl stumbles sometimes. Ar-
kansas Irareler.
You look" said an Irishman to
pale, haggard smoker las if you had
got out of your grave to light your
cigar, and couldn't find your way back
again"
Kansas City Mani suppose you've
never been in Kansas City, have you?
Omaha Mani was there last week.
Last week! Oh, but you ought to see
it nown '-Omaha World.
"A Connecticut paper speaks of
man Cooking on with baited breath"
Some men bait with cloves, and some
with orangepeel. Why didn't the
paper give its readers fuller p .rticu-
arsp
If you want knowledge, you must
toll for it; if food, you must toll for
lit; and if pleasure, you must toll for it.
Toll Is the law. Pleasure comes throug
toll, and not by self-indulgence and in
dolencc. When one gets to love w ork,
his life is Il happy one.-Ruskin.
They tell in Philadelphia of a small
boy whose governess one day, out of
patience with his mischievousne ss.
caught him by the arm, saying: "Harry,
believe the Old Nick has hold of YOU"
Quick as flash, the youngster an
swered: Yes, but only with one
hand"
-Bascomb Gust returned from Aus
tralia)-Well. sir, what would you say
if | told you had seen snake out
there that measures forty feet in cirdum-
terence and ninety-three feet in length?
Darnley-I should say-er-that Aus
tralia does not produce good whisk "
Jud C.
The habit of faltering and distin-
gushing and concealing, and putting
forward the edge of the truth instead
of showing boldly the full face of it. at
last leads men into an insincerity so
habitual that they really do not k now
whether they speak the truth OF not. -
CardimH Manning.
But grief is not the end of all. l
seem to hear the funeral march become
pecan. | see beyond the forest the
moving banners of hidden column.
Our dead brothers still live for us, and
hid us think of life, not death-of life
which in their youth they lent the
,ass:on and glory of the spring. 20.
". Holmes. Jr.
"A colored individual at Elmira, N.
T., asked the clerk at the post-of1ide to
direct letter for him. The clerk
wrote as desired: "Miss Rosy Bell
Washington. The writer waited for
further information. Finally he asked:
We'll my friend, where does Miss
Rosy Bell Washington live?" "Why.
DOSS, answered lne uarkN, cOnHuen-
TALLY, ''dat's jos wat do know. If |
knowed I'd d'reck it myself, and not
bodder de post-office."
"A well-known steam engine builder
says that large share of the fault
found with engines running unsteadily
comes from permitting the governor to
get dry from lack of oil, or gummdd up
n some of its essential parts. He in
stances sending man one hundred
md fifty miles upon repeated com
plants of an engine sold two years
previous. A halliday spent in putting
he governor in condition was all the
nan did when he got there.
Nachinist.
An odd practice prevails in regard
to mourning for deceased relatives in
Corea. Any one who has suffered such
4 loss goes about for a year wearing a
kind of pointed basket on his head,
which completely hides his face and
no one is permitted to address him oil
speak to him. 1t was by adopting the
nourner's bonnet as a disguise that the
early Jesuit missionaries succeeded in
entering the country and making theil
way about unquestioned by any BODY
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